Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 167 times smaller than Brazil.

Brazil is approximately 8,515,770 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 0.6% the size of Brazil. Meanwhile, the population of Brazil is ~217.2 million people (212.0 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Brazil vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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